Combat rock

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Combat rock
Studio album by The Clash

Publication
(s)

May 14, 1982

Label (s) CBS (Europe), Epic

Format (s)

CD, LP, MC

Genre (s)

Punk , new wave

Title (number)

12

running time

46 min 21 s

occupation

production

The clash

Studio (s)

Ear Studios ( London ), Electric Lady Studios ( New York City ), Wessex Studios (London)

chronology
Sandinista!
(1980) 		Combat rock Cut the Crap
(1985)

Combat Rock is The Clash's fifth album , released in May 1982. It is the last album of the most famous Clash line-up. In 1982, Topper Headon was excluded from the band because of his heroin addiction and Mick Jones left the band in 1983. The album goes to Sandinista! started way of uniting many different musical styles.

Combat Rock was supposed to be a double album with the working title Rat Patrol from Fort Bragg , but this idea was discarded after internal disputes. Mick Jones was responsible for the production of a first version, but the other band members were dissatisfied with the result and signed Glyn Johns as the new producer. With him the course was followed to produce the album as a single LP. The original recordings have been preserved to this day and were released as a bootleg .

The album started at number 2 in the UK charts and stayed in the UK Top 40 for 23 weeks . It lasted 61 weeks in the United States, climbed to number 7, and went platinum.

As with Sandinista! the album's catalog number was a political allusion. "FMLN2" is an abbreviation for the party " Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional " (FMLN) from El Salvador .

In January 2000, the album was remastered and re-released along with the rest of The Clash's catalog .

The from the film Slumdog Millionaire known song Paper Planes by MIA includes a sample of Straight to Hell.

Press reactions

New Musical Express (Great Britain): " Combat Rock is easily the best clash album since ' Give' Em Enough Rope '."

Melody Maker (UK): “Bottom line: I have my doubts about the more trending aspects of The Clash and the way they ride death and depression to the point of insignificance, but I will still go for Combat Rock for one listen for a while. "

Rolling Stone (USA): “The message of 'Combat Rock' - the fifth clash album, and a growling, angry, yet musically ambitious collection of twelve tight songs on a single record - is: don't give a shit about pop hits and press praise. This record is a real declaration of a state of emergency, a provocative and demanding testimony to classic punk rage, thoughtful questioning and nerve-wracking frustration. "

The Village Voice (USA): “Those who (allegedly) expect The Clash to surpass Gramsci at some point claim that they are now making a fool of themselves. On the other hand, I think that they are way ahead of the majority of their serious competition [...] They are developing further, and there are signs of hope that one day they will write songs at this higher level of lyrical, musical and political density that are so short and precise like 'Janie Jones'. "

Musikexpress (Germany): “With their fifth album - the working title was 'Rat Patrol From Fort Bragg' - the Clash are back on their rock feet. [...] The Clash are a rock band. An excellent one. If they then let their reggae feeling play, then that is also convincing. 'Combat Rock' is full of both. "

Sounds (Germany): "At The Clash I am amazed how a band can grow old so quickly, or rather senile without growing up first [...] Nobody really needs to listen to Clash today."

SPEX (Germany): “'Combat Rock'? 'Combat Rock'! After the (unsuccessful) attempt, with Sandinista! To find your way in a musical world that has broken down into more and more styles, poses and idioms and continues to break down, here you concentrate on what you really know - rock. [...] The Clash have become more concise again: the music is precisely tailored to the message of the individual piece. "

Track listing

Unless otherwise noted, all songs are from The Clash.

  1. Know Your Rights - 3:39 (Mick Jones / Joe Strummer)
  2. Car Jamming - 3:58
  3. Should I Stay or Should I Go - 3:06
  4. Rock the Casbah - 3:14
  5. Red Angel Dragnet - 3:48
  6. Straight to Hell - 5:30
  7. Overpowered by Funk - 4:55
  8. Atom Tan - 2:32
  9. Sean Flynn - 4:30
  10. Ghetto Defendant - 4:45 (Rap: Allen Ginsberg)
  11. Inoculated City - 2:43
  12. Death Is a Star - 3:08

Rat Patrol From Fort Bragg track listing

  1. The Beautiful People Are Ugly Too
  2. Kill time
  3. Should I Stay or Should I Go
  4. Rock the Casbah
  5. Know Your Rights (Extended Version)
  6. Red Angel Dragnet
  7. Ghetto Defendant
  8. Sean Flynn
  9. Car jamming
  10. Inoculated City
  11. Death is a star
  12. Walk Evil Talk
  13. Atom tan
  14. Overpowered by funk
  15. Inoculated City (Uncensored version)
  16. First Night Back In London
  17. Cool confusion
  18. Straight to Hell (Extended version)

Contributors

Guest musicians:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ release date
  2. ↑ Video interview with MIA
  3. ^ X Moore, New Musical Express Magazine (May 15, 1982)
  4. ^ Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker Magazine (May 15, 1982)
  5. ↑ [1] David Fricke, Rolling Stone Magazine (June 24, 1982)
  6. ^ [2] Robert Christgau, The Village Voice magazine (August 10, 1982)
  7. ↑ Harald in Hülsen, Musikexpress magazine (June 1982)
  8. ↑ Tina Hohl, Sounds magazine (6/1982)
  9. ↑ Gerald Hündgen, SPEX magazine (June 1982)